Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --  “I had one of my students draw me some dolls and I gave each of them a name and started assigning them with affirmations – and that was 10 years ago. And I had another friend who makes dolls and she started to make them into dolls, my goal now is to get each girl to design her own doll and give it a name that reflects her own thoughts or personality. …So girls who leave the program they will be given self esteem kits and a declaration that says: ‘Because I am free I have power, I know who I am, I can dream big, I can open up and let the sunshine in, I can relieve stress, I can be charitable, I can save a penny, I can have hope, I can have a new beginning.’ …I wanted to take this pain and give them a reason to smile and a reason to go on – and that is what life is all about, to encourage someone else. …If you don’t have anybody to encourage you then you do things to feed into whatever the ‘in’ crowd is doing. …Because they don’t love themselves.” ...